A closer look at Aakash 2 tablet

New Delhi, Nov 16: It's a tablet for everyone. Datawind in association with the HRD Ministry has launched ultra-low cost tablet Aakash 2, at a subsidised price of Rs 1,130 for Indian students. The Aakash 2 tablet has been developed as a public-private partnership aimed at making computing technology available to students in a country where Internet usage is only at around 10 per cent.The new version of the Aakash tablet PC will come with 1GHz processor, four-hour battery time on Wi-Fi, capacitive screen and Android 4.0 operating system. The original Aaaksh tablet was powered by a 366 MHz processor.The tablet comes with screen resolution of 800×480 pixels. Akash 2 has front facing VGA camera along with Wi-fi support. It has 4GB (internal) flash memory, which is expandable up to 32GB using a micro SD card. The previous version of Aakash had a 7-inch resistive touch screen.The tablet has 512 MB RAM and has a battery that lasts around four hours.The commercial version of the Aakash 2 unit is branded as UbiSlate 7Ci, and is available for purchase on DataWind's website at Rs 4,499. About 22 crore students will get the device across the country in the next five to six years."I have a perfectly functioning tablet, at a lower cost than what the competition sells with the same specs," said Suneet Singh Tuli, Indian-origin CEO of Datawind, who has been named by Forbes magazine among the 15 "classroom revolutionaries" who are using innovative technologies to reinvent education for students and teachers globally.Interested customers can book Aakash 2 online at official site of Aakash Tablet (ubislate.com). The Aakash 2 online booking has already started for commercial sale."Unlike the previous version which was a non-starter, this time around there are some functions and features around the Android tablet which make it a decent computing device for that price," stated pluggd.in, an Indian website that analyses gadgets.